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• Jerry Saltz - The Critic As (Failed) Artist (Or Not)

  19-04-2017 00:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I miss art terribly. I’ve never really talked about my work to anyone. In my writing, I’ve occasionally mentioned bygone times of once being an artist, usually laughingly. Whenever I think of that time, I feel stabs of regret. But once I quit, I quit; I never made art again and never even looked at the work I had made. Until last month, when my editors suggested that I write about my life as a young artist."
  
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• Antoine Billore – the cheekiest boy in antiques

  16-10-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Nude selfies first got his business noticed. It’s still irreverent, but fully dressed 
  
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• The perfect artist’s studio? An attic in Paris

  16-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The bohemian ideal of the struggling young genius was nurtured in the ramshackle world of 19th-century Montmartre and Montparnasse
  
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• Director of Operations

  16-10-2026 02:14 via artsjournal.com
  The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (“The Clarice”) at the University of Maryland is the nationally recognized, innovative, collaborative and supportive home for UMD’s School of Music (SOM); the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS); and The Clarice’s own artistic platform, Clarice Presents; as well as The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library (MSPAL). Together they create a welcoming, collaborative, and socially-conscious community for students,
  
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• Manager, Artistic Administration

  16-10-2026 02:12 via artsjournal.com
  The primary responsibility of the Manager, Artistic Administration is to support the activities of The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s presenting program, Clarice Presents, which is dedicated to building the future of the arts through innovative performances and meaningful engagement of The Clarice’s community. Clarice Presents’ four programs includes Performance, Community, Civic, and Digital areas, as well as the NextNow Fest and National Orchestral Institute + Festiva
  
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• The Granada Theatre seeks Vice President of Stage Production & Operations

  16-10-2026 02:09 via artsjournal.com
  Position Summary The Vice President of Stage Production & Operations (VP) will serve as the senior functional leader for Stage Production, Front of House, Hospitality, and Building Operations at The Granada Theatre (Granada), ensuring performances, events, rentals, resident company engagements, and touring productions are delivered safely, efficiently, and to high standards of service, technical excellence, readiness, and financial stewardship.The VP will guide labor administration, estimati
  
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• Executive Director – Guild Hall of East Hampton

  16-10-2026 02:01 via artsjournal.com
  Guild Hall seeks a visionary, collaborative, and operationally disciplined Executive Director to lead one of the country’s most distinctive multidisciplinary cultural institutions into its second century. This is a rare opportunity to build upon a period of extraordinary transformation while shaping Guild Hall’s next era of artistic excellence, civic leadership, financial sustainability, and national impact. Guild Hall’s historic galleries and theater have welcomed generations
  
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• Company Manager, Long Wharf

  16-10-2026 01:57 via artsjournal.com
  Reports to: General Manager (Finance & Operations)Works closely with: Director of Artistic & Community Partnerships, Artistic Producer, Production Management, Stage Management, Audience Experience, and guest artists.Location: Must reside in or near New Haven, CT, with regular on-site work at rehearsal, performance, and artist housing locations throughout the Greater New Haven area.Employment: Full-Time (non-exempt)Salary: $50,000–$60,000 annually, depending on experience, with bene
  
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• Chinese Hospitals Warn About the Flash Step

  16-10-2026 01:50 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A teaching film from the Beijing Dance Academy, posted in 2018 by a graduate who only wanted to preserve the footage, went viral in China last month. Its moves come from the Flower Drum Lantern dance, a national intangible cultural heritage of Anhui province, and a hospital affiliated with Yangzhou University now warns that untrained imitators are tearing ligaments (South China Morning Post). On Saturday Night Live, Rosalía appeared to stand en pointe for nearly four minutes
  
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• Ruletka na prawdziwe pieniadze na zywo – graj i wygrywaj!

  16-10-2026 01:22 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Co to jest ruletka na prawdziwe pieniadze na zywo?
  Ruletka na prawdziwe pieniadze na zywo to wspaniała forma rozrywki dla miłośników gier kasynowych, którzy chcą poczuć klimat prawdziwego kasyna, nie wychodząc z domu. Gra odbywa się na żywo, z udziałem prawdziwego krupiera, który prowadzi grę. Dzięki temu możesz cieszyć się grą na wysokim poziomie realizmu i emocji, podobnie jak w tradycyjnym kasynie.
  
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• Sotheby’s London Contemporary Art Sale Tallies $61.1 M., Led by a $12.9 M. De Kooning

  15-10-2026 23:57 via artnews.com
  
  In a tense saleroom with a lot of silent moments and anxious pauses—at times it felt like a courtroom, with all eyes on auctioneer Tom Eddison—Sotheby’s London conducted a slow but steady £46.1 million ($61.1 million) contemporary art sale on Thursday in a full sale room, with a £9.8 million ($12.9 million) Willem de Kooning abstraction earning the top price. The sale carried an overall estimate of £41.7–58.6 million ($55.3–77.8 million); the hamme
  
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• National Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Museum Misattributed Work from Private Collection

  15-10-2026 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled an object from his private collection from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work by a pro-Japanese collaborator.You has exhibited and donated other items in his collection since he took office in 2025, and the incident has sparked que
  
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• National Museum of Korea Director Scrutinized After Loaning Misattributed Work from His Private Collection to the Musuem

  15-10-2026 22:21 via artnews.com
  
  The director of the National Museum of Korea, You Hong-june, has come under scrutiny after the institution pulled an object from his private collection from its current exhibition, according to South Korean English language newspaper Korea JoongAng Daily. Initially attributed to an independence activist, the piece was later identified as a work by a pro-Japanese collaborator.You has exhibited and donated other items in his collection since he took office in 2025, and the incident has sparked que
  
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• Dino Bones Held in UK Museum for 100 Years Identified as New Species

  15-10-2026 22:12 via artnews.com
  
  London’s Natural History Museum has millions of specimens in its collection, and until recently at least one dinosaur nobody knew it had.A fragment of skull that spent roughly a century in the museum’s holdings has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of carnivorous dinosaur, according to Discover. Better still, the creature appears to be Europe’s first known megaraptoran, a group of formidable prehistoric predators that have prevously identified elsewhere in the wor
  
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• Minor Attractions, a New London Fair In a Hotel, Finds Space for Emerging Galleries and Artists

  15-10-2026 22:07 via artnews.com
  
  Frieze Week in London has stopped being just about Frieze London and Frieze Masters as smaller fairs are seizing the opportunity for more intimate fair models. On Tuesday, Minor Attractions hosted its fourth edition—this time with a new location at The Newman, a newly opened hotel in central London.This year’s fair runs until Saturday, with 38 galleries from 15 countries set up in 16 bedrooms at the hotel. Some galleries are sharing, while others have an entire suite. “We wante
  
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• A New Met Show Promises Rembrandt, as Never Seen Before

  15-10-2026 21:48 via artnews.com
  
  Reframing Rembrandt, one of the Dutch Golden Age’s greats, is no small feat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art seems poised to pull it off, with an exhibition next year that will bring several of the artist’s works to the United States for the first time.“Rembrandt and the Ancients,” organized with the Louvre Museum and opening in New York in November 2027, is billed as the first in-depth museum examination of the artist’s fascination with the art and mythology of Medi
  
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• Writers Are Being Deluged With Scams, Even Though Most Don’t Have Much Money. How Come?

  15-10-2026 21:04 via thedial.world
  Because these scammers have hit on an M.O. to which writers are particularly susceptible, that’s why. And there are a lot of hopeful writers out there, so the scammers can ask for small amounts of money (making it look low-risk to the targets), and make bank on volume. – The Dial
  
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• Yes, Reading Has Changed. Adapt.

  15-10-2026 20:31 via theamericanscholar.org
  
  “We have everything we need to be happy,” the hero of Fahrenheit 451 observes, “but we aren’t happy.” Maybe that’s the ultimate lever to pull: the growing awareness that our devices are exhausting and eroding us. – The American Scholar
  
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• Minnesota Opera Orchestra Unanimously Votes To Strike

  15-10-2026 20:03 via mprnews.org
  The musicians say that, in contract negotiations, management has rejected any cost-of-living increases in pay. (Their salaries have been flat for the past four years.) The company’s season begins on Halloween with the world premiere of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Minita Gandhi. – Minnesota Public Radio
  
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• A Landmark Survey of Native Graphic Arts Defies Expectations

  15-10-2026 19:54 via artnews.com
  
  Through next February, New York’s Poster House is home to “Designed to Be Red,” a milestone survey of Native graphic arts. By institutional convention, such a show would unfold chronologically; but as its curator, the Native designer Brian Johnson, notes, time is a snake swallowing its own tail.The show spans two centuries and more than 60 tribes and nations, organized around five themes: Indigenous Joy, Creative Sovereignty, Protest, It’s Complicated, and Extractive Mark
  
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• Previously Unknown Canaletto Drawing Heads to Auction After Centuries in Private Hands

  15-10-2026 19:46 via artnews.com
  
  A previously unknown drawing by18th century Italian painter and printmaker Canaletto is heading to auction in England next week with an estimate of $53,000 to $79,000, after two centuries apparently spent in a single family’s collection.The drawing, a fanciful architectural scene called a capriccio, will be on sale at Mallams auction house in Oxford on October 21. The work has been authenticated by Canaletto specialist Charles Beddington and dates to between 1746 and 1755, when the Venetia
  
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• ‘Ignorant, Bigoted, Self-Seeking, Blatant, and Dishonest’

  15-10-2026 19:41 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2026/10/ignorant-bigoted-self-seeking-blatant-and-dishonest.html" title="‘Ignorant, Bigoted, Self-Seeking, Blatant, and Dishonest’” rel=”nofollow”>When William
  
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• The Real Cause Of The BBC’s Funding Crisis

  15-10-2026 19:31 via theconversation.com
  
  The biggest driver of the BBC crisis is the cut in real-terms funding for its national, regional and local UK services. These are the services that largely account for licence payers’ willingness to pay the fee. The reduction in the real-terms funding of these services has been building up since 2010. – The Conversation
  
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• Karachi Biennale Abruptly Canceled

  15-10-2026 19:17 via hyperallergic.com
  
  It is not yet clear what specific circumstances or events in the region contributed to the cancellation, which reportedly occurred without the input of the biennale’s curator, Noor Ahmed, according to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn’s cultural imprint, Images. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Met Opera’s New “Lincoln In The Bardo” Is “Quite Hilarious At Times”

  15-10-2026 19:02 via apnews.com
  Well, so says librettist Royce Vavrek. The subject matter — Abraham Lincoln grieving his young son Willie, who is stuck in the place between death and rebirth — would seem grim. So Vavrek and composer Missy Mazzoli took care to include humor and even joy. – AP
  
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• Ozwin casino Live Dealer Games: An Evidence-Based Look at Real-Time Play

  15-10-2026 19:00 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Ozwin casino presents live dealer games as one part of a wider browser-based casino rather than as a separate betting platform. The public lobby includes a Live Dealer category, but it does not publish a provider count, game-by-game return rates or detailed studio information. For Australian players comparing real-time tables with pokies and other casino options, https://intentgroup.co.nz/ offers a useful mid-sentence reference point while we examine what the available facts actually show.What t
  
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• Ozwin casino support strengths and weaknesses for Australian players

  15-10-2026 18:58 via zouchmagazine.com
  
  Ozwin casino presents a support model built around 24/7 LiveChat, email and scheduled calls, with extra priority for higher loyalty levels. That gives Australian players several ways to resolve account, payment and promotion issues, although the public information is not always consistent. This review examines the service strengths, practical weaknesses and key checks to make before registering through ozwin or making a deposit.Ozwin casino support channels and response quality
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• Trump’s War Has Decimated Iran’s Visual Art Community

  15-10-2026 18:44 via theguardian.com
  The sudden onset of war shuttered commercial galleries in central Tehran, cancelled scheduled solo exhibitions, severed shipping channels and destroyed the fragile domestic market that allows creators to pay rent and sustain studio practices. – The Guardian
  
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• Shareholders Approve Fox Deal To Buy Roku

  15-10-2026 18:31 via variety.com
  
  In an expected development, shareholders for both Fox Corp. and Roku voted to approve Fox’s $22 billion acquisition of the streaming-video platform company. – Variety
  
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• Alan Mandell, The “Beating Heart Of LA Theatre”, Dies At 98

  15-10-2026 18:15 via latimes.com
  
  Actor Alan Mandell, who died at 98, helped shape Los Angeles theater as a performer, director, administrator and arts supporter whose influence stretched from experimental stages to the Mark Taper Forum. – Los Angeles Times
  
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